Period dramas dresses tournament: Yellow-Golden dresses FINALS! - Bai Zhouyue, Novoland: eagle flag (pics set) vs Edith Cushing, Crimson peak (gifset)
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In support of Hot General Summer (tm)
I realized that my recent poll not only lacked visual support but also left out a lot of my fave cdrama generals. So, in support of my Hot General Summer agenda:
Xiao Qi, Rebel Princess
Wei Wu Ji, Sound of the Desert
Ling Buyi, Love Like the Galaxy
Zhousheng Chen, One and Only
Zhao Yun, God of War Zhao Yun
Sima Yi, Secret of Three Kingdoms
Han De Rang, The Legend of Xiao Chuo
Zhan Beiye, Legend of Fuyao
Gao Chang Gong, Lan Ling Wang
Xiang Yu, Story of Han Dynasty
Cao Pi, The Advisors’ Alliance
Meng Tiang Fang, Ancient Terracotta War Situation
Chu Bei Jie, General and I
Zhu Zan, Jin Jiu Ling
Wolfie, The Wolf
Xiang Yu, Legend of Chu and Han
Cheng Yi, The Promise of Chang’an
Liu Xiu, Singing All Along
Huo Xin, Painted Skin the Resurrection
Meng Qi You, Glamorous Imperial Concubine
Yang Bros, The Young Warriors
Weng Gui, Princess Jieyou
Xiao Ping Zhang, Nirvana in Fire 2
Pei Zhao, Maiden Holmes
Ji Ye, Novoland Eagle Flag
Zhu Qi Zhen, Imperial Doctress (it’s a reach he’s an emperor. But he leads his force in battle and I wanted Wallace Huo there so...)
Yuan Ling, Lost Love in Times
Yi Xiao Chuan, The Myth
Gu Tingye, The Story of Ming Lan
Lu Bu, Three Kingdoms 2010
Xu Lingyi, The Sword and the Brocade
Yue Fei, Patriot Yue Fei
Xiang Yu, The Myth
Ping Zhang, Nirvana in Fire 2
Guo Jing, Legend of Condor Heroes 2008
Xiang Yu, The Legend of Qin
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Favorite things about Novoland Eagle Flag so far:
-Asule. That's it that's the entire post (jk)
-The actor who plays Asule! Young teen Asule and young adult Asule are played by the same grown adult man, but I did not need to be told that Asule was a kid when we first met him. Unlike so many other drama’s where they have to remind the audience that this is a kid! Don’t forget! Even though they’re being played by an adult! I did not need that and the drama did not do it. The actor is just a that good. The actors transformation from terrified kid to a young adult growing in his confidence was MASTERFUL.
-Asule the character. The way he manages to hang on to his softness and gentleness through violence and trauma. My god. I think his bio dad and I are on the same team here and that team is: “I’ve had Asule for 5min but if anything happened to him, I’d kill everyone here and then myself.”
-Asule’s bravery. I’m a believer in the saying “you can’t be brave unless you were afraid”. Asule freezes when confronted with violence. He does this over and over again. He freezes, he tries to run. And then he puts himself between the violence and someone he wants to protect because he is incredibly brave.
-Asule relationship with his dad! The gradual shift from Asule hating his dad and wanting to kill him to trusting and loving him. Their affection for each other breaths off the screen. It hasn’t been an easy relationship and the drama does a beautiful job of conveying it in remarkably few scenes and dialogue, given the emotional depth of the relationship and how profoundly it changed over time.
-The budget. Sue me, I’m shallow. I love it when a show - especially a fantasy type show - does beautiful, sweeping world building with scenery, costumes, and sets. Lord of the Rings was the first visual media that gave me a taste of this when I was a kid and I’ve never gotten over it. Novoland is delivering in spades.
-The meet cute between our three main characters. Scrappy young man and scrappy young lady are so focused on each other and their own problems that I don’t think either of them properly noticed Asule and how AMAZINGLY he handled that entire situation. It was extremely humorous (which I always love) and I think it’s indicative of how many characters are going to treat Asule, which is to say, they are going to overlook and underestimate him because he’s mild and soft spoken.
-If you can’t tell already, I’m an Asule simp
-The way the drama quickly establishes that the three main characters come from radically different walks of life. When Asule is dreaming of home and the people he’s lost, scrappy young lady is stopped from drawing on his face because he starts crying and she says “but I haven’t even drawn anything yet!” Young lady, your drawing on his face wouldn’t even register compared to his other problems… They are worlds apart in term of life experience. Meanwhile, scrappy young man is shown to come from an impoverished and abusive home. When asked why he wants to learn to fight, he says it’s because he doesn’t want to die a “nobody”. What a contrast to Asule answer to the same question! It marks their differences and the reasons for these differences so clearly.
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Floral pattern outfit of Bai Zhouyue
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I was already generally of the opinion that Novoland: Eagle Flag featured an alarming number of characters that were geared specifically to me (and this is coming from a person that doesn’t like most protagonists), but then they showed General Xi’s backstory and the way he just murdered a courtier in cold blood in front of State Preceptor Su and something in me just went insane. This show knows what it’s good at and it’s guys with baggage.
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Best character surnamed: Baili
Come and vote for the best characters with the same surname!*
What does best mean? It's up to you! Whether you love them, are intrigued by their characters, love to hate them, or they're your '2 second blorbos whose personality you made up wholesale', these are all reasons for you to vote for your favs!
*note, the surnames are not exactly the same in all the cases, as often there will be a different character. I am, however, grouping them all together otherwise things got more complicated.
Propaganda is very welcome! If I’ve forgotten anyone, let me know in the notes.
This is part of a larger series of ‘best character with X surname’ polls’. The overview with ongoing polls, winners, and future polls can be found here
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Period drama's dresses tournament: Golden-yellow dresses Round 1- Group A: Bai Zhouyue, Novoland: eagle flag (pics set) vs Wu MeiNiang, The empress of China (gifset)
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I am sure I posted the this MV before but I have a lot of new followers who I am aiming to convince to check out what is the most underrated cdrama in my Top 5 list (this is arguably my most favorite cdrama except for The Story of Minglan) Novoland Eagle Flag.
I have an incredibly lengthy tag for it so I won't bother with yet more word insanity over it, except to say that except for The Myth, I have never seen another drama this perfectly attuned with my worldview only in a grand historical epic.
PS Have a scene from one of my ultimate OTPs of all time: she is an exiled princess of the winged clan and he's a bastard abused street fighter son of a minor household. The fact that more people didn't go insane for Yu Ran x Ji Ye is a literal crime!
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Ppl calling Asule "weak" and "womanly" because he's gentle and horrified by violence is going to be my villain origin story.
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Yu Ran
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